The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

A lovely biographical museum in the artist's home of 24 years.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

The original shop where the iconic Belgian praline was invented.

A shining memorial to a Belgian hero is said to bring luck to anyone who touches it.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

Japan’s tallest Godzilla statue contains a piece of the original 1954 film within its base.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.